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Twins separated at birth?

Twinsters is a Kickstarter project by a pair of twenty-five-year-old women who just discovered they might be identical twins.

Here's their story: In February, Samantha, an American actor living in Los Angeles, received a Facebook message from Anaïs, a French fashion design student living in London. Anaïs' friends had seen a YouTube video featuring Samantha. They were immediately blown away by the identical appearance of Samantha and Anaïs. After a few Google stalking sessions, Anaïs and her friends discovered that both girls were born on November 19, 1987 and adopted shortly afterward. Anaïs knew immediately that it was possible for Samantha to be her biological twin sister and reached out to her through Facebook.

Now they're raising funds on Kickstarter to meet each other, film a documentary about their experience, and test their DNA to see if they are twins. Fascinating, right?!

49 comments:

I have actually watched this video two weeks ago from Youtube too! it's kinda sad that they were separated at birth but it's a really happy reunion now that they found each other through technology and social media!

This reminds me of the story of how Liv Tyler found out Steven Tyler was her father. She was at an Aerosmith concert and ran into Steven Tyler's other daughter and was blown away about how much they looked a like. Low & Behold...They were sisters but had no idea.

I hope they raise enough money to test the DNA results! That'd be crazy if they were!!! =)

I have twin 2 year olds so this was incredible to see that they found each other! My twins are boy/girl so I wonder if there are tons of separated twins out there that would never even discover their twin since they don't look alike.

As someone who is also adopted, this has always been in the back of my mind when someone tells me they've met someone who looks just like me. And now that I have a child of my own- who is the spitting image of me when I was little- it makes me even more curious to know if I have blood brothers/sisters I don't know about. So glad, and amazed at how they found each other. What a blessing!

THAT IS WILD!!! I am a twin and I couldn't imagine being separated and then FINDING out years later bam I have a twin! Wild!!! Amazing to think what kind of similarities they'd have and styles! AND how a friend saw them on facebook! I think this is an incredible story!!!

Random offshoot question about twins - I'm expecting twin girls in July. I have a sister but we have a terrible relationship, and I'm worried about them feeling competitive with each other - any sage advice about things to do/not do when raising twin girls? I'd love to hear anything you think your parents did that were really successful (or not!).

This is really amazing. So many things transpired to keep them apart & yet... Reminds me of that Edie Brickell song The Wheel, "Somewhere there's somebody who looks just like you do, acts just like you do, feels the same way... Somewhere there's a person in a far away place, with a different name and a face that looks like you."